Firefox 11 is failing to display text from a mysql dbase. Within the form there are various text boxes and text areas that function correctly, but one text area that remains inert. No content from the dbase and will not display flashing curser. It functions OK in IE8. I can see no reason for this. Can you?

The code of the whole code is quoted below. I have enboldened the relevant miscreant line.

Thanks Burak Ueda. I have no style definitions for the id "cel_blb". As you can see the cell in question has the style "top_cell" applied to it, as do the other form elements. On my .css page "top_cell" simply reads:

There is a difficulty with both of your suggestions. I am reluctant to give public access, even on this forum, to this area of my website because someone could maliciously interfere with the contents of the database. It is therefore a protected by password. Because of this restricted access I find the Adobe BrowserLab is unable to link to the page. All a bit frustrating.

Thanks for trying to help.

I am bewildered as to why this one textarea is behaing differently to the other on the same page.

I guess there seems to be an issue with one or more of add-ons you've installed in Firefox. Did you also check in FF4 (without Safe Mode)?

Try doing the following:

First backup your Database, then try one of these 2 options:

1. Change your DB collation type to utf8_general

Check in FF11.

2. Change the type of cel_blb to text instead of mediumtext

Check in FF11.

See of either of these options work.

If not, let us know what character set you're using in your HTML header (post your HTML header if possible). Also, post a list of all your add-ons that you've installed on Firefox. In firefox, type about:addons in your addressbar to bring up the list of all add-ons.

I post below the portion of the webpage that precedes the form quoted above. I wonder if the use of TinyMCE is causing the problem.

We're getting there. What version of TinyMCE are you currently on? 3.5b3 is the latest version and I guess they've resolved the render issue caused with most textboxes in this release as this came out after FF11.

If you're not already on 3.5b3, try to upgrade and post your results here.

I've been experimenting with the new version of TimyMCE and initially the new 3.5b3 version made no apparent difference (ie the offending textarea still failed to function whilst the second textarea behaved fine)

I then wondered if there was a problem with having two textareas using a text-editor in one form. To try this out I deleted the second textarea, which has always functioned fine. Hey presto, the first textarea sprang into life! So it appears that whilst I have previously been able to run two (tinyMCE) editable textareas in one form on Firefox I can now only run one. Does this seem likely to you?

I can see that this maybe turning into an issue for the TinyMCE Forum. . .